THE Punjab state headquarter of Communist Party of India (Marxist) was attacked by the RSS and BJP goons in Sector 30-B, Chandigarh on February 17 at about 5.30 pm. About 75 hoodlums threw stones at the office building. Five policemen who were present at the site along with the hoodlums, were silent spectators when they were throwing stones at the office building. Rather the policemen were asking the people inside to get behind doors. Most of the Party leaders were out of the office for some meetings in Delhi and in Punjab at the time of the incident. The families of the state leaders who are staying on the top floor of the Party office were terrorised by the goons. The windowpanes of the office were smashed by the goonda elements of the RSS and BJP. They were raising slogans ‘Sitaram Yechury, Pakistan Agent Murdabad,’ ‘CPI(M) Murdabad’. The RSS and BJP hoodlums had left the place by the time Party workers from the city reached there. Later police came to the Party office and had discussions about the incident with the Party leaders. The leaders of other parties also reached the CPI(M) office to express their solidarity with the Party leaders. Raghunath Singh, CPI(M) state secretariat member, condemned the cowardly act of the RSS and BJP goons and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits. Devi Dayal Sharma, CPI secretary, reached the Party office and expressed anguish over the incident and condemned the nefarious designs of the RSS and BJP. CPM Punjab state secretariat member, Inderjit Singh condemned the cowardly action of the RSS and BJP. Rajiv Godara, leader of Swaraj Abhiyan who reached the Party office while interacting with press persons available at the site termed the incident as an attack on democracy and apprehended that the situation is just like during emergency in the country.